Mike: While the markets were thrilled about the newest banking bailout, all that market noise on the upside did nothing to alleviate the job loss story.

Mass layoffs are considered those of over 250. I will highlight any large layoffs, but it’s the smaller layoffs that seem to lose any national MSM recognition and those layoffs of less that 250 people are as important as those of higher numbers. Let’s take a late evening look at some of these job losses.

Michigan is again in the news for all the wrong reasons:

Port Huron, MI – The JCIM plant in Croswell is closing by the end of the year, taking with it more than 100 jobs, said Dick Cummings of the United Way of St. Clair County.

(Blade, The (Toledo, OH) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Nov. 23–BELLEVUE, Ohio — A fire damaged the Progress Plastic Products factory in Bellevue Sunday, just days after an announcement that the plant would be shutting its doors.

UTMB began laying off about 600 workers per day Tuesday and will lay off the final 600 Monday to compensate for losses stemming from the Sept. 13 storm, which caused $710 million in damage to the campus.

Edith Edmonds at the Lee County Employment Security Commission has the numbers to confirm that. The most recent data for Lee County, which was released in September, indicates that 8.2 percent of the county’s labor force — or 2,259 people — are out of work.

A preliminary budget is scheduled to be released in early December, and Masser has already suggested that county positions may be cut. There are currently 912 employees on the county payroll, including 43 people hired in the last year.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Just a few weeks ago, the Comptroller estimated Wall Street job losses in the 10s of thousands, but in Monday’s report, Tom Dinapoli estimated unemployment numbers so big, they almost take a calculator to comprehend.